Snagit – A Good Graphic Tool

Snagit is a good graphic tool for anyone.  While it started out as a basic screen capture tool, it has evolved into much more.

Pictures and images are an essential way to bring a website/blog to life.  But getting an image file “web ready” can be tricky.  The most common mistake is bloated file size which can slow down your website and hurt your Google ranking.  Here’s a good BOT article on “size matters” when it come to pictures for your website:

Size Matters for Pictures on a Website

Snagit provides a simple way to obtain and re-size image files for the web.  And it does a lot more.

Here are a few of the things you can do with the Snagit software.

• Capture a selected region of a screen
• Capture a window, scrolling window of a web page or a full screen shot
• Keep weblinks active in the above options
• Use its Snagit Editor for editing captures saved to a file

Snagit Editor provides a wide range of options.

• Saving the capture as a PNG, BMP, JPEG or PDF file
• Sending an image to Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Add enhancements such as arrows, cursors, lines, text
• Adjust color depth
• Add text, or view the frames of a video capture
• Add custom edge effects like drop shadow or torn or faded edges
• Manipulating the image through flip, mirror, shear, rotate, crop, and cut

You can download fully functional 30 day trial from TechSmith (Windows and Mac versions are available).  If you like Snagit, it’s only $49.95!  And TechSmith provides great instructional videos.